Re: weird permissions problems

[Dave Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk> writes:]

>> I cannot compile with gcc because when it goes to write the object
>> file it prints "perm" before exiting and then perm after
>> exiting. What does this mean?
>I think this sounds like the stack growth problem (cc1 dies if memory
>serves). I don't have the patch handy (my mailer's not that clever) but
>Andy posted it on 3rd June 1994 so it should be in the archive.

I had another idea. Did you clone the "root" user entry, by chance? This
causes problems, because the first ID a user possesses is used to tag the
default permission of objects, and a zero-length ID, while granting all
privileges, is not useful as a default permission.

                                                        Andy
Received on Fri Sep 23 05:50:02 1994